49-year-old McSween was leaving her shift at Mario's Lakeway Lounge in Mentor-on-the-Lake when she was attacked behind the building. Cops say she ran to a nearby home to get help, and frantically knocked on the windows. Too scared to answer McSween's cries, the homeowner called 911 instead.

Meanwhile, the killer dragged McSween's badly beaten body away from the house, and she died.

Thomas was not arrested until June 2011, months after McSween's murder.